âFusarium Protein Toolkit: a web-based resource for structural and variant analysis of Fusarium species.
BMC Microbiol
; 24(1): 326, 2024 Sep 06.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
ââThe genus Fusarium poses significant threats to food security and safety worldwide because numerous species of the fungus cause destructive diseases and/or mycotoxin contamination in crops. The adverse effects of climate change are exacerbating some existing threats and causing new problems. These challenges highlight the need for innovative solutions, including the development of advanced tools to identify targets for control strategies. DESCRIPTION In response to these challenges, we developed the Fusarium Protein Toolkit (FPT), a web-based tool that allows users to interrogate the structural and variant landscape within the Fusarium pan-genome. The tool displays both AlphaFold and ESMFold-generated protein structure models from six Fusarium species. The structures are accessible through a user-friendly web portal and facilitate comparative analysis, functional annotation inference, and identification of related protein structures. Using a protein language model, FPT predicts the impact of over 270 million coding variants in two of the most agriculturally important species, Fusarium graminearum and F. verticillioides. To facilitate the assessment of naturally occurring genetic variation, FPT provides variant effect scores for proteins in a Fusarium pan-genome based on 22 diverse species. The scores indicate potential functional consequences of amino acid substitutions and are displayed as intuitive heatmaps using the PanEffect framework.CONCLUSION:
FPT fills a knowledge gap by providing previously unavailable tools to assess structural and missense variation in proteins produced by Fusarium. FPT has the potential to deepen our understanding of pathogenic mechanisms in Fusarium, and aid the identification of genetic targets for control strategies that reduce crop diseases and mycotoxin contamination. Such targets are vital to solving the agricultural problems incited by Fusarium, particularly evolving threats resulting from climate change. Thus, FPT has the potential to contribute to improving food security and safety worldwide.Palabras clave
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Proteínas Fúngicas
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Internet
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Fusarium
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Microbiol
Asunto de la revista:
MICROBIOLOGIA
Año:
2024
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Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido